Her older sister, however, totally gets the difference between flesh dissolving G's and cursive writing. She's trying valiantly not to spontaneously combust while holding in her laughter.

I, on the other hand, am made of sterner stuff... I went into the kitchen to lose it.

Gz!!!

O' Little Town of Bethlehem...

With Zombies 'n S'mores

When you have Autism, life is a lot safer when things "make sense." Life should have logic, order, patterns. This is why objects get lined up, sorted, rearranged.

My oldest son apparently found fault with my Mom's nativity scene. I don't know, take it up with Jesus...

To back up - Kaelan is obsessed with Plants VS Zombies. He plays the game, draws pictures of them, makes them out of paper with moving parts using little metal brads. He has a plastic box FILLED with zombies! (Beware, the zombiepocalypse may very well start here - after all, the box could spill.)

ANYWAY, the NATIVITY of madness! Kaelan has one of his paper zombies and is walking it around the livingroom... Then he's dancing it over the nativity.

"Is that a zombie in the nativity?"

"It's a dragon zombie," he explains.

Ahhh...that makes it a little more exciting!

Then he rearranges the nativity...

Kaelan adds a candle holder to the middle. VERY cozy! It now looks like a camp out and Joseph is on marshmallow duty.

Personally, I think the whole thing would have ended on a MUCH happier note if everyone had s'mores...

On the Good List...But

There is a very cool site called the Portable North Pole. You can go and create videos for your children from Santa.

It's very easy to do. The videos are personalized for each child. Name, age, grade, pictures, what they have been working on (LISTENING to Mom and Dad, etc.), and the dreaded how have they been this year?